The Swiss Society for Occupational Hygiene (SSOH) promotes the field of occupational hygiene by contributing to the advancement of knowledge and professional practice at a professional level, the exchange of experience and knowledge among its members and with other professionals and persons concerned with occupational health issues.

Occupational hygiene is the discipline of anticipating, recognizing, evaluating, controlling exposures and communicating health hazards in the work environment with the goal of protecting the health and well-being of workers and promoting the overall safety of the general public.

Occupational hygienists work closely with other specialists in occupational safety and health.

SSOH is a section of the umbrella organization suissepro of the societies for occupational safety and health and a member of the International Occupational Hygiene Association IOHA.